When I see the word “revolutionary” attached to something like an Ipad app, my big shield of skepticism goes up. Real fast. It sounds like the hypey stuff a marketer would use in order to go into a product launch. This morning, a new Ipad app launched called FlipBoard. And the word “revolutionary” was assigned to it by Ashton Kutcher....

In case you haven’t heard, newspapers aren’t doing too well out there. Video stores are disappearing. Everything is going digital now. Even books. Problem is – people don’t really want to sit at the computer to read the news. It requires a different kind of experience. The Ipad gives it, and the Droid-powered tablets sure to be coming out...

We’re in the final stretch to being ready to launch a brand new design for PCMech.com. I wanted to give you guys an update on what’s in store. This is going to be a lot more than a re-design. While the entire scope of the project is a bit large, it is actually going to be a shift in how the site conducts itself. There will be editorial changes as...

OK, so there is an issue with the Iphone 4 antenna. Got it. But, judging from the way many in the tech blog world are treating it, this is not only the only thing happen in the world, but it is Armageddon itself. Are you kidding me? Look at Techmeme right now (see below). This issue dominates the page. And now you got a Senator chiming in about it? Dave...

The move has not been made yet. It is possible that something may rise its head and make me reconsider. But, I’m fairly sure my wife and I are going to get rid of our Iphones and get Droid powered phones. One may think it is about the network. AT&T has surely received a lot of attention on call quality since they got the Iphone. However, it has little to...

It was way back in 1997 when I first got the idea for PCMech.com. It started out as a small collection of hobby articles I wrote and posted on the 5 MB of free web hosting space provided by my ISP. It then evolved to Geocities (now defunct). Then, to Pair Networks (my current host). Over the years, it has undergone more facelifts than I can even remember. One of...

You may have heard by now, but Facebook doesn’t really care about your privacy one bit. At least that’s the impression left in the minds of many these days. To compound the problem, Facebook has been less than open about the privacy concerns. And nothing makes PR worse than ignoring people who are complaining. The instant personalization rollout took people...

The Ipad shortages continue. I called up the two retail stores in our area (Tampa Bay) and even the people who work there have no earthly idea what’s going on with the Ipad. I have yet to see any mention from Apple itself on why this shortage is taking place and when to expect some supply. All the while, Apple.com continues to feature the device, saying it...

The Ipad 3G launched on April 30th. On May 1st, I decided I wanted to get one. Went by the Apple Store in Tampa only be told they were completely sold out. That was almost a week ago. Nothing has changed. There is simply no inventory anywhere to be had of the Ipad 3G. In most stores, that includes even the wifi model. Apparently, some stories have been hitting...

In this age of technology, there isn’t any excuse for being disorganized. There isn’t any excuse for forgetting things. We have TONS of ways to use technology to act as replacements for our own brains. One such solution is Evernote. I LOVE Evernote, and if you’re not using it already, you should be.In short, Evernote is a note-taking application. You can...

Ever since I switched to OS X myself, I keep an eye out for decent blog editors for the Mac platform. Most of them suck. One that holds some promise is MarsEdit, which just recently got updated to version 3.0. Surprisingly, it took this long to put in WYSIWYG editing for blog posts, only to limit the editor to the latest OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Most Macs...

The Apple Ipad. Apple has announced that it has sold one million of the things in the first month. While Apple fans look for justifications to buy one, Apple haters have been very vocal denouncing its shortcomings and calling it a huge waste of circuitry. The most interesting thing, though, has been the arguments about how the Ipad is so lame when compared to a...

We all know that Apple is pretty, shall we say, protective about the Iphone. Remember when they denied Google Voice purely because it would help competition? Similarly, Apple has never let a competing browser to Safari onto the device. Opera, however, is calling them out. Opera has submitted Opera Mini to the Apple App Store, but they did it with style. They not...

A couple months ago, I ran a “clearance sale” here on PCMech.com to clear out all of our old physical inventory of product. Simply put, PCMech is no longer going to deal with physical products, instead focusing primarily on PCMech Premium and electronic info products to help our members and subscribers. However, we still have some stuff left to get rid of...

This is a guest post by Elisabeta Ghidiu. VPNs are a common subject these days and they are being used both by home users and companies. From a company point of view, when we think of a Virtual Private Network we think of an intelligent tunnel that encrypts data at the IP level and send the information from one network to another over a public TCP/IP...